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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 140308 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2014/03/140308.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Hunt's 'hospital closure' clause prompts cross-party revolt - http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/08/jeremy-hunt-hospital-closure-clause-revolt-tory-rebels too right (v @DrJackyDavis)#NHS

UK police "not in a position to respond to claims and therefore cannot defend it" - http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/08/scotland-yard-undercover-police-row this is just disgusting

#Snowden: Berlin hat Druck der #NSA nachgegeben - http://www.heute.de/nsa-snowden-berlin-hat-druck-der-nsa-nachgegeben-32261018.html?tabNo=1 who's in charge here? (v @JanAlbrecht)#de

Assange tells SXSW audience: ‘#NSA has grown to be a rogue agency’ - http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/mar/08/julian-assange-wikileaks-nsa-sxsw "preparing “important” new release of material"

GM foods & application of the precautionary principle in EU - http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-committee/news/140214-gm-foods-and-application-of-the-precautionary-principle-in-europe/ part of concerted attack on #precautionaryprinciple

Russia’s Facebook Prepares To Make Peace With USTR Over Piracy - http://torrentfreak.com/russias-facebook-prepares-to-make-peace-with-ustr-over-piracy-140308/ this was inevitable... #vkontakte

School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA - http://news-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/03/09/0225224/school-tricks-pupils-into-installing-a-root-ca you can bet this happens elsewhere...

US plans to speed poultry slaughtering, cut inspections - https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/03/07-0 #TTIP/#TAFTA would bring them to #EU supermarkets

Tasmania: a death warrant against pristine forests - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/06/tasmania-a-death-warrant-against-pristine-forests-abbott-has-never-seen "Abbott referred to the Greens as “the devil”" the mask slips

Popcorn Time: Open Source Torrent Streaming Netflix For Pirates - http://torrentfreak.com/open-source-torrent-streaming-a-netflix-for-pirates-140308/ if film industry were clever, it would adopt this

Majority of China’s cities fail air quality test - http://thebricspost.com/majority-of-chinas-cities-fail-air-quality-test/ yikes

Fail and prosper: how #privatisation really works - http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/clare-sambrook/fail-and-prosper-how-privatisation-really-works making mugs of the UK public; what a disgrace (v @Asher_Wolf)

Niemoeller Redux - http://anniemachon.ch/annie_machon/2014/03/niemoeller-redux.html good piece about troubling trends; wake up, people... #whistleblowing

Netflix Comes Out Swinging For #NetNeutrality! - http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4230 self-interested, but hey, it's an ally... (v @cybearDJM)

Hackers Leak @Walmart’s Guide on How to Silence Workers - http://www.scoop.it/t/networked-labour/p/4015360533/2014/02/04/hackers-leak-walmart-s-guide-on-how-to-silence-workers-making-change-at-walmart "plans to snuff out labor organizing drives" (v @mbauwens)

#MakerFaire: #London 'geek-fest' heralds fully plugged-in UK - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/08/maker-faire-olympic-park-london … coming this summer...

although I have to say #makerfaires have nothing to do with the trendy Internet of Things... #fail #IoT

Saudi Arabia Threatens to Lay Siege to Qatar: Cooperation or Confrontation? - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-hearst/saudi-arabia-threatens-to_b_4930518.html huh? (v @Bassem_Sabry @asteris)

"Die Gefahr ist hoch, dass #US/#CA Konzerne künftig gegen EU-Staaten klagen & Milliarden an Schadenersatz fordern" - http://taz.de/Volkswirt-ueber-TTIP/!134499/

"Die Freunde des #TTIP ducken sich weg, vor allem Angela Merkel" - http://taz.de/Kommentar-Freihandelsabkommen-TTIP/!134502/ "Dabei wird es langsam eng für die Befürworter"

African elephants may have human-specific alarm calls - http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=10975 *may*? - it's probably our ignorance of what they're saying

#china: "Polluters to pay for damage done" - http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=10&art_id=143262&sid=41769506&con_type=1&d_str=20140310 great idea; pity we don't do the same... (v @ChinaBizWatch)

#Elsevier are still charging THOUSANDS of pounds for #CC-BY articles. IMMORAL, UNETHICAL , maybe even ILLEGAL - http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/03/09/elsevier-are-still-charging-thousands-of-pounds-for-cc-by-articles-immoral-unethical-maybe-even-illegal/